Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author of Sometimes I Never Suffered among other books. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and an NEA fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Poem of the Week

My Twelve-Year-Old Daughter Tells Me She Feels Lonely in Quarantine

Shane McCrae
June 22, 2022
Two hands on a graphic black and white background. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Poetry

Race in the Mind

Shane McCrae
June 28, 2021
Horace Pippin, Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–1937. From the Art Institute of Chicago.
Poetry

Jim Limber Burning Where No Fire Is

Shane McCrae
April 1, 2020
Bison Calf in the South Yard, United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory, circa 1887. Smithsonian.
Poetry

The Hastily Assembled Angel Meets the God of Human Freedom

Shane McCrae
April 1, 2020
Image: Pair of Clappers, ca. 1353–1336 B.C., Hippopotamus ivory. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Poetry

The Hastily Assembled Angel on Care and Vitality

Shane McCrae
April 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Poetry

Between

Shane McCrae
November 1, 2017